Older and Uglier

(and what I’ve gained along the way)

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

- Mark Twain

What can you say of youth which the young don’t already understand better than you? They’re living it; you only remember it, and usually wrongly. There is so much to youth which you think you remember, but how can you? It is a once-in-a-lifetime deal, both a wondrous blessing and a gruesome curse. What do…